I Agree, The World Would

And If, By The End [of This Book], You Reckon You Might Still Disagree With Me, Then I Offer You This: You'll Still Be Wrong, But You'll Be Wrong With A Lot More Panache And Flair Than You Could Possibly Manage Right Now.

The Placebo Effect Is One Of The Most Fascinating Things In The Whole Of Medicine. It's Not Just About Taking A Pill, And Your Performance And Your Pain Getting Better. It's About Our Beliefs And Expectations. It's About The Cultural Meaning Of A Treatment.

I Write About Misuses Of Evidence In Plenty Of Different Spheres: Scaremongering Journalists, Obvious Quacks And Naturopaths, And Flaws In The Way That Evidence Is Used In Mainstream Academia, Medicine And In (government) Policy. One Of The Things I Always Found Interesting Is The Same Tricks Are Used To Distort Medicine In All Of Those Domains.

Doctors And Patients Need As Much Data As Possible To Make An Informed Decision About What Treatment Is Best.

The Plural Of Anecdotes Is Not Data